Elon Musk

#winning

The Elon thing is like watching someone who wished to become a genie (because nobody is more powerful than a genie) realize what being a genie entails. pic.twitter.com/2uSqW1gQXZ

— Robinson Meyer (@robinsonmeyer) November 2, 2022

something something genitals

so it's like watching the end of the famous movie Aladin?

Genie entrails

firing half a company in one day, there must be some reason why no one ever does that

Here it is: Elon Musk is planning to absolutely gut Twitter.

~3,700 people will lose their jobs on Friday, which is about half the company. Musk also plans to end Twitter’s remote work policy, forcing employees back to the office. https://t.co/tMcilbzUQg

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) November 3, 2022

Screenshots from a Slack channel since made private put the number at 3,738 — we assume full-time Twitter employees.

A ‘RIF review’ meeting with Musk and his team is scheduled to be taking place right now. https://t.co/KokN5sul3A

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 3, 2022

This roughly covers the interest payment

Apparently they accidentally posted the list in a public slack channel then made the channel private. None of the people managing this have ever had a real job.

jfc

prob fire the people actually keeping the site up cause he had tesla guys out there counting commits

“Layoff lists were drawn up and ranked based on individuals’ contributions to Twitter’s code during their time at the company … The assessment was made by both Tesla personnel and Twitter managers.” https://t.co/tMcilbzUQg

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) November 3, 2022

How confident is everyone in Tesla personnel and Twitter managers and their ability to identify who is keeping the website running?

You have to imagine that many capable people are running for the Apple, Microsoft, and Google lifeboats is they haven’t left already. Meta on-boarded a handful of E6s this week. All from Twitter and during a “hiring freeze.”

Everyone also needs to be quiet about the interest. It’s a non-issue. Even the most chaste of the lenders have said as much in the past two days. It’s not a pressing issue. Musk doesn’t care about it and he shouldn’t. He’s just this dumb.

Apparently remote people (which is most people) are going to get fired for cause to avoid severance.

Everyone also needs to be quiet about the interest.

My point was order of magnitude this saves real money (in the short term), while charging a small number of people $8 does not.

Shitcanning trust and safety before pivoting to paywalled videos also seems like it might be a bad idea.

Everyone also needs to be quiet about the interest. It’s a non-issue. Even the most chaste of the lenders have said as much in the past two days. It’s not a pressing issue. Musk doesn’t care about it and he shouldn’t. He’s just this dumb.

My point was order of magnitude this saves real money (in the short term), while charging a small number of people $8 does not.

My bad! That comment wasn’t directed at you! It was more of a comment about everyone on Twitter or Hacker News talking about this as being an important issue rather than the obvious important issue: Musk is a moron.

issue isn’t the lenders, it’s about not throwing good money after bad!

and clearly he does care about it, given the layoffs!

Welcome to Silicon Valley. You over-hire but reminiscence about the “startup days” and will always, without fail, throw good money after bad.

Xp got you.

Do you know if the Facebook joiners on ml infra or modelling? Or are they regular swes?

no, you throw fidelity money after a16z money in silicon valley.

if twitter can’t pay its interest with the cash generated from its operations, sooner or later elon will have to contribute even more of his own money to avoid defaulting on the debt. elon is not very liquid - all his wealth is in tesla stock. he’d rather not have to sell even more tesla stock while the price is at a recent low. that’s what i mean about throwing good money after bad!

xp

I feel like Elon is giving us a good real world sense of what Galt's Gulch would be like. Nobody would actually know how to do a single useful thing.

Do you know if the Facebook joiners on ml infra or modelling? Or are they regular swes?

hey appeared to be infrastructure people. Because I’m a creep I looked at one’s Twitter profile and his posts read like he hasn’t quit Twitter! I hope this is a “quiet quitting” situation. If so, I applaud him.

Hero.

Reply to your dms btw

Advertisers should support:

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022

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SCOOP: L’Oréal has become the latest big company to suspend advertising spending on Twitter, as major brands grow nervous of Musk's chaotic rein

Others are quietly reviewing their exposure. “There’s some quiet quitting going on,” said one ad executivehttps://t.co/o8hD5uAcnw

— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) November 2, 2022

they're gonna hemorrhage advertisers, meanwhile the CEO is trying to feud with AOC on his own platform

let's say you could...how much would you pay?

— Danny Singh (@Mr_DannySingh) November 2, 2022

fucking yikes (assuming this dude actually does work there)

he does

twitter but make it reverse cameo + onlyfans

pay 2 harass

what about the reverse, John? have you ever had a time you wanted to chat with another twitter customer but they never responded?

— Danny Singh (@Mr_DannySingh) November 2, 2022

This is hilarious and embarrassing. They really don't understand what people use Twitter for or how.

“no wrong answers: what if you could buy a stake in a twitter account & effectively own them? any experiences with owning folx? painpoints?”

I feel a dril/Elon Musk showdown coming

this is so wild. I honestly thought given the money he paid and his eagerness to get out of the deal that he'd keep things mostly as-is but the dude is firing half his staff and crowdsourcing terrible ideas in order to generate revenue (which he won't have anyone to work on!) while simultaneously having an online meltdown which has led to him straight up antagonizing his entire userbase, all the while advertisers are jumping ship in anticipation of him turning it into a right-wing hate speech cesspool. and it hasn't even been a full week!!!

The Liz Truss of the social media world

I feel like our current reality is just hastening a real life Coupon: The Movie

you know how it's generally accepted that Kanye's mother dying is what turned him from an eccentric but successful weirdo into a full-on psychotic fascist? I think Elon's moment may have been everyone dunking on him for that stupid cave submarine

we should have let him take it in there and sealed it shut

wait he was going to drive the submarine?

The Liz Truss of the social media world

― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 3 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

A least it's only social media.

It's just logic.

"Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive and founder of Binance, said “a slimmer workforce would make more sense” at the social media platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has invested $500m (£441m) in Twitter as part of Musk’s $44bn takeover, which completed last week and has been followed by a stream of changes and mooted overhauls of the company ever since."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/03/twitter-may-axe-half-its-workforce-as-key-investor-backs-job-cuts-elon-musk

“I trust him by reputation “ lmfao

When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022

!remind one week

hah

https://i.imgur.com/rQyJQyg.jpg

Reply to your dms btw

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:30 (twelve hours ago) link

I only get DMs from Twitter Blue members.

reddit brain

Elon Musk Told Twitter Advertisers He Plans to Offer Tiers of Content Moderation Similar to Movie Age Ratings https://t.co/gPp0fhuygT

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 3, 2022

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It'll be like the MPAA - the hard r pushes you to the top tier, but they'll let a little softcore racism slip through for the kids, as a treat.